Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of proof is not proof of absence.
More William Cowper Quotes
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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